Parasite Prevention

[xtremegamer1000]

I've used potassium permanganate in the form of alum before for sterilizing plants. Is there a certain dosage I can use alum for and how long should I keep it in the tank for if I'm using a qt tank?


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[xtremegamer1000]

Would this work I copied it off a website: Potassium permanganate can be used to treat parasites on individual fish. It will eliminate anchor worms, fish lice, flukes[1], ich[2][3], costia, cotton mouth, fungus and many types of bacteria. Prepare 8 Litres (2.1 US G.) of water at aquarium temperature and add 1/8 teaspoon (0.6g) of crystals.
Stir until dissolved.
Dip fish into solution for 5 minutes. If fish looks stressed, remove at once.
Dip fish into clean water for a few seconds to rinse.
Do NOT use this level of potassium permanganate in an aquarium tank!


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[duanes]

All parasite treatments are basically poisons, that are too week to directly kill fish in small doses, but add them constantly and they will build up to toxic conditions enough to stress out, and eventually kill your fish. As stated above, garlic is a good preventative for internal parasites, and UV can kill free floating ones. Salt helps a little, but many parasites are halophyllic (salt tolerant).
Best practices are the way to go, ie quarantining new fish, plenty of water changes with substrate vacuuming, keeping stress down, (not over crowding, not overfeeding, keeping compatible fish together, good water quality etc etc) and only using feeder fish that you breed yourself, (and only if needed for piscivores that absolutely won't eat prepared foods).

 

[Lupin]

All parasite treatments are basically poisons, that are too week to directly kill fish in small doses, but add them constantly and they will build up to toxic conditions enough to stress out, and eventually kill your fish. As stated above, garlic is a good preventative for internal parasites, and UV can kill free floating ones. Salt helps a little, but many parasites are halophyllic (salt tolerant).
Best practices are the way to go, ie quarantining new fish, plenty of water changes with substrate vacuuming, keeping stress down, (not over crowding, not overfeeding, keeping compatible fish together, good water quality etc etc) and only using feeder fish that you breed yourself, (and only if needed for piscivores that absolutely won't eat prepared foods).

Precisely. Do not go about dosing meds without knowing what you are exactly trying to deal with. What you need is more patience in the course of quarantining your fish. Do quarantine them at a minimum of four weeks. Most parasites have a month long life cycle ahead of them and you need more time to observe for any unusual signs that indicate their presence just to be sure.

The few meds you can have in hand especially for emergencies are salt, malachite green/formalin, praziquantel (flukes) and trichlorfon/dimilin (for external parasites such as fish lice).

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